Urban communities books

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Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced...

Author: Ronald J. Angel (University of Texas, Austin) ,  Holly Bell (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780511843792
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane...  Read More >>

Controversies in Local Economic Development: Stories, strategies, solutions

Controversies in Local Economic Development: Stories,...

Author: Martin Perry
ISBN: 9780415539784
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book will discuss seven controversies in local economic development, including knowledge and learning, the...  Read More >>

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and...

Author: J. T. Way ,  John T Way
ISBN: 9780822351313
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2011 Volume 9: Reproductive Decisionmaking

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2011 Volume 9:...

Author: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ,  Tomas Sobotka
ISBN: 9783700172352
Format: Paperback
$116.16

From the Content: Maria Rita Testa, Tomas Sobotka and Philip S. Morgan: Reproductive decisionmaking: towards improved...  Read More >>

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial...

Author: Peter W. Daniels ,  K.C. Ho (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9780415567732
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization...  Read More >>

Housing the Homeless

Housing the Homeless

Author: Jon Erickson ,  Charles Wilhelm
ISBN: 9781412847681
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Author: Heather E. Campbell (Claremont Graduate University, USA) ,  Elizabeth A Corley
ISBN: 9780765624307
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This timely book provides a wealth of useful information for following through on today's renewed concern for sustainability...  Read More >>

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and...

Author: J. T. Way ,  John T Way
ISBN: 9780822351207
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Author: Heather E. Campbell (Claremont Graduate University, USA) ,  Elizabeth A Corley
ISBN: 9780765624291
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This timely book provides a wealth of useful information for following through on today's renewed concern for sustainability...  Read More >>

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans...

Author: Michael S. Barr
ISBN: 9780815733683
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Reveals widespread problems in home mortgage lending in America, the common threads among people who file for bankruptcy,...  Read More >>

Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood...

Author: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
ISBN: 9780226703626
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark,...  Read More >>

Philanthropy and Light

Philanthropy and Light

Author: Oriel Prizeman
ISBN: 9786613667069
Format: Electronic book text
$395.84

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie supported the erection of almost three...  Read More >>

Children, Youth and the City

Children, Youth and the City

Author: Kathrin Horschelmann (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781280665585
Format: Electronic book text
$733.92

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Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in America

Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in...

Author: John Brueggemann
ISBN: 9781442200944
Format: Paperback
$44.95

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The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City: Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York

The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the...

Author: Laam Hae (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9786613658876
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

<p>In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long...  Read More >>

The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender...

Author: Benita Heiskanen (University of Southern Denmark University of Turku, Finland University of Turku, Finland University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9786613658715
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

<p>This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport,...  Read More >>

Looking Beyond Suppression

Looking Beyond Suppression

Author: Erika Gebo ,  Brenda J Bond
ISBN: 9786613676740
Format: Electronic book text
$190.05

This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and youth violence...  Read More >>

The Sacred in the City

The Sacred in the City

Author: Dr Liliana Gómez ,  Associate Professor Walter Van Herck (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781441172952
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Offers an analysis of (post-)secularized and modernized societies to define the state of the sacred today and to...  Read More >>

Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground

Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home...

Author: K. Tyler
ISBN: 9780230578494
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions...  Read More >>

America's Top-Rated Cities

America's Top-Rated Cities

Author: David Garoogian
ISBN: 9786613606792
Format: Electronic book text
$991.58

Americas Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one...  Read More >>

Living on the Boundaries

Living on the Boundaries

Author: Camp-Yeakey Carol
ISBN: 9786613679741
Format: Electronic book text
$364.16

Given the increasing urbanization of the world's population, how people thrive and survive in high density urban...  Read More >>

Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood...

Author: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
ISBN: 9780226703619
Format: Hardback
$222.95

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark,...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Social Ecology: A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge

Climate Change and Social Ecology: A New Perspective...

Author: Stephen M. Wheeler
ISBN: 9780415809870
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Industrial cultures have proved unable to confront the issues underlying the climate problem such as overconsumption,...  Read More >>

Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia

Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on...

Author: Harley F Etienne
ISBN: 9781439900680
Format: Hardback
$162.36

A critical study of university-driven development from the neighborhood resident's perspective  Read More >>

Climate Change and Social Ecology: A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge

Climate Change and Social Ecology: A New Perspective...

Author: Stephen M. Wheeler
ISBN: 9780415809856
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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